Description
Wimbledon Village is the old heart of Wimbledon, on top of the hill by the Common in south-west London: a High Street of boutiques, salons, restaurants and pubs, among the old houses of one of London's most sought-after residential areas.
Look for Eagle House, built in 1613 by Robert Bell, a director of the East India Company; a blue plaque recalls that the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer lived there in 1803. Behind the Dog and Fox, an 18th-century stagecoach stop on the road from London to Portsmouth, the village stables take riders out onto the Common.
A short walk away are the open spaces of Wimbledon Common, with its windmill museum, and the gardens of Cannizaro Park. The village is the original Wimbledon: the town center at the foot of the hill grew up only after the railway station opened there in 1838.
Look for Eagle House, built in 1613 by Robert Bell, a director of the East India Company; a blue plaque recalls that the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer lived there in 1803. Behind the Dog and Fox, an 18th-century stagecoach stop on the road from London to Portsmouth, the village stables take riders out onto the Common.
A short walk away are the open spaces of Wimbledon Common, with its windmill museum, and the gardens of Cannizaro Park. The village is the original Wimbledon: the town center at the foot of the hill grew up only after the railway station opened there in 1838.